Object Details
Designer
Raymond Loewy, American, b. France, 1893–1986
Client
Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Manufacturer
Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Description
A final tissue for K-4 class locomotive, a streamlined train. A locomotive, in the form of a bullet (engine number 5400) is depicted as approaching diagonally from right distance to left foreground on the center of three tracks.
Credit Line
Gift of the Pennsylvania Railroad through Samuel M. Vauclain
Date
1936
Accession Number
1937-58-2
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
transportation
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
Medium
Graphite, yellow crayon on tracing paper
Dimensions
47.6 x 62cm (18 3/4 x 24 7/16in.)
Mat: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)
designed in
France
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_1937-58-2